My HPV shot arm feels fine, and has felt fine since last night. I was able to sleep on that side last night.

My tetanus shot arm, however, still aches. Lifting my arm or picking things up — in other words, anything that flexes the muscle around the injection site — makes it hurt. It also hurts if my arm gets touched within a couple inches of the injection sight. I had to be careful last night not to roll over onto that side, and avoid cuddling with boyfriend, who sleeps on that side when in my bed.

Conclusion: I’d rather have an HPV shot than a tetanus shot.

I just came back from the doctor and got a tetanus booster shot in one arm, and HPV shot #1 in the other.

Needles going in hurt the same amount — not much.

Stuff going into arms — didn’t feel it for tetanus, ached a little for HPV. Nurse said it was cause the HPV stuff is thick.

Immediately after — tetanus arm felt fine, HPV arm ached a little near injection site.

Hour later (now) — both ache just a little near injection site, no big deal. Tetanus arm aches a little more, but that may be because it’s my right arm, and I’m right handed. I kinda feel like I don’t want to pick up anything really heavy, but that’s really it.

In conclusion: nothing to fear, re: getting the shots themselves.

Besides, Asperger’s is only as disabling as you allow it to be. In many ways, it’s pretty cool.

I’m trying to teach my daughter with Asperger’s not to swear, but I think I’d give her a pass on telling you to go fuck yourself with a blender. Which she would, since she has Asperger’s and doesn’t think it’s “pretty cool” or “only as disabling as you allow it to be”.

But I guess minimizing and blaming somebody for their disability gives you some kind of sick pleasure.

Yes, autism is much worse. I know: my little brother is full-blown, low-functioning, lives-in-a-care-facility autistic. (He didn’t get it from a fucking shot, either.) That doesn’t mean Asperger’s is the neurological equivalent of a stubbed toe.

Hey, I bet somebody whose kid is in a persistent vegetative state would be thrilled to have a child with mere autism. Does that mean autism is “pretty cool”?

See previous reference re: fucking yourself.

There were 92.8 million prescriptions written for Vioxx between 1999 and 2003.

The FDA estimates that Vioxx led to the deaths of 27,785 people.

What’s the injury rate?

Yes, seriously. The vast majority of pediatricians and family doctors fear liability for vaccine injury*, and thus are less likely to report vaccine reactions, especially serious ones, to the FDA. Reporting vaccine reactions to the FDA is voluntary for doctors, not mandatory. Thus the 1% estimated reporting rate.

I would imagine the controversy would only increase this fear vs. lessen it.

* Source: Freed et al., Vaccine-Associated Liability Risk and Provider Immunization Practices,Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:285-289.

My husband and I had to get rabies shots about two years ago - we woke up and there was a bat in our room, and the CDC says if you’ve been unconscious in a room and cannot say I WAS NOT BITTEN, well, better safe than sorry.

Said husband, who is nearly seven feet tall and built like a steel fridge, went down like a fainting goat at his ninth injection.

Rabies is a terrible, terrible series.

It’s better than dying.

I mean, come on.

Only if you assume, despite the fact that Gardasil is under much greater scrutiny than every other vaccine, that the 1% figure actually holds for this vaccine too. Do you really think that 13,500 cases of permanent paralysis would go unmentioned with all the controversy over this vaccine? Seriously?

i couldnt lift my arms without aches for two days. driving was a big deal and i ran a light temp for three days. you just suck it up and know it goes away.

my daughter’s getting the shot.

and i want her to have a sense of her own joy in her body as she matures into a woman, not fear of it or of sharing herself with another human being in a positive and giving way for both!

When did I ever make the assumption that it’s risk-free?

It’s really tiresome the amount of assumptions that other people have been making in this thread about what I believe that are completely contrary to what I’ve actually said or believe.

Criticisizing Gardasil has nothing to do with believing women are sluts, or that all vaccines are bad, or that the issue is even somewhat realistically a matter of choosing Gardasil over getting cervical cancer and/or pre-cancer treatment and/or death. There are so many argumentative fallacies and so much self-justification going on here that it reads like a textbook case from the book Amanda reviewed a little while ago, “Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me.”

I don’t have a dog in this race, I haven’t gotten the shot, haven’t defended or criticized the shot before looking at the evidence, or made up my mind about it prior to looking at the evidence. I am a woman who cares about her own health and the health of others.

What I have done is try to look at the evidence objectively, and subsequently found Gardasil to be problematic in many ways. Just posting what I know to inform others. That’s it.

Good luck, everybody.